Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary
Eau Claire, WI

2008-01-29 ILC Chapel — God uses common events to…

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Date : 2008-01-29
Speaker : Seminarian Scott Schiermeister

Psalm 119:1–10 (Listen)

Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

Aleph


119:1   1 Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
    who walk in the law of the LORD!
  Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
    who seek him with their whole heart,
  who also do no wrong,
    but walk in his ways!
  You have commanded your precepts
    to be kept diligently.
  Oh that my ways may be steadfast
    in keeping your statutes!
  Then I shall not be put to shame,
    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
  I will praise you with an upright heart,
    when I learn your righteous rules.2
  I will keep your statutes;
    do not utterly forsake me!

Beth


  How can a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.
10   With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments!

Footnotes

[1] 119:1 This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter

[2] 119:7 Or your just and righteous decrees; also verses 62, 106, 160, 164

(ESV)